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Life in the e-lane

Why do I have to do everything myself?

30 September 2017

9:00 AM

30 September 2017

9:00 AM

The plane landed a fraction early, at just after 9 p.m. Hope flickered that passport control would be as deserted as the echoing arrivals terminal. But no. By the time we reached sight of what is now labelled in enormous letters the ‘UK Border’, we had joined a mass of humanity in a single corridor to be decanted in batches into ‘the maze’.

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